growing people newsletter - fall 2005

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VOLUME 11 Fall 2005

Growing People NewsGrowing People NewsG a r d e n e r s i n C o m m u n i t y D e v e l o p m e nt

Project Report: GICD Donation Gardening

The recent Community Food Security Coalition Conference in Atlanta got me thinkingabout food security in Dallas and North Texas. The definition ofcommunity foodsecurity is a condition in which all persons have access to culturally acceptable,nutritionally adequate food through local non-emergency sources at all times.

We gardeners are sharing people. For those who love vegetable gardening, the sharing oftomatoes and squash, plants and seeds, across backyard fences, with co-workers, atchurch, and even with strangers, has a special place in our hearts, and is a nostalgic partof gardening stories. There is something triumphant about having too many bananapeppers, heirloom okra seeds, or fresh basil that drives you to seek out special personsthat will cherish these gifts.

Old timers remember that the food shortages experienced during the two World Wars,and the Great Depression brought a flourish of urban food producing gardens. TheseLiberty, Relief, and Victory Gardens were a patriotic way to support the war effortthrough the local production of food. People in all areas worked the soil to raise food fortheir families, friends, and neighbors. Victory gardening enabled more supplies to beshipped to our troops around the world. During the Second World War nearly 20 millionAmericans were active in Victory Gardens, which produced up to 40% of the foodconsumed at the time. (www.victoryseeds.com/TheVictoryGarden/page2.html)

Today hundreds of cities and towns have community gardens, and while a few urbangardens have long histories, like the Dowling Community Garden in Minneapolis whichstarted over 60 years ago, most of the many thousands of community gardens across the

United States and Canada started in the last twenty-five years (visit the AmericanCommunity Gardening Association website, www.communitygarden.org). Themission of each of these gardens depends on the needs of the local gardening group, andmay range from spiritual renewal, environmental enhancement, beautification,community building, horticultural therapy to youth training. Most community gardensproduce an abundance of food for gardening members, friends and neighbors.Community gardens contribute to the food security of our communities by increasinghorticultural skills and knowledge, organizing people, and food production.

In our GICD community gardens, food production and giving some of the harvest tothose in need, has always been of the utmost importance. Some of you may know that inthe early 1990s we worked with El Paraiso de West Dallas Community Garden, andthe Gladewater Road Community Garden. Both of these started with the simple ideathat neighborhood members could benefit from coming together to grow food. Theywere great successes. Tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, and other produce were grown, andmost importantly, shared widely across the neighborhood. Gladewater, for a time, massplanted so that neighbors in-need could come pick their own. We learned much from

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Project Report: GICD

Donation Gardening1

Garden Notes 2

Our Saviour Episcopal

Church Convention

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Katrina Sparks Increased

Donation Gardening

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First-timer's Impressions 5

GICD Supporters

Fall 2004 Fall 20056

Tiah's Garden Recipe 7

4th Graders (quotes fromthank you notes...

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Inside this issue:

Upcoming Events:

Plant Sale

2006

Saturday April 8& Sunday April 9

East DallasCommunity

Garden1416 N. Fitzhugh

Dallas

VisitGICDOnline at

www.gardendallas.org


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these and other early GICD projects.

With the three Asian refugeecommunity gardens in East Dallas, welearned that former Cambodian andLaotian farmers are great marketgardeners, and the best way to get the

most food to the greatest number ofneedy people is to encourage theirmarket gardening skills. These Dallasurban farmers know how to grow moreper square foot, and also deliver morehigh quality fresh vegetables for a dollar,than anyone I have ever gardened with.For low income residents of our city,there is no better place to buy vegetables.These community gardens are a greatexample of how one group of people hasworked to bring about food security forthemselves and their community. Thereis a close, often personal or familyconnection between grower andconsumer; there is no wasted energy intransportation, marketing, packaging, andstorage; the gardens are productive in allseasons and a reliable source ofculturally appropriate food, and the lowcosts make nutritious food highlyaccessible to both grower and consumer.

In the last three years, two GICDcommunity gardens were started by groupswanting to donate vegetables to local foodpantries. The results have been amazing.As I write this, Hope Community Gardenhas just reached a cumulative officialtotal for this year of 1,589 pounds, and

unofficial donations, those that gardenersgave to the local food pantry that didnt getweighed and recorded, probably wouldraise the total to over 1,700 pounds. Mindyou, every gardener consumed an ampleamount of what they grew themselves intheir small plots, and still had extra todonate. The major shortcoming of thisscheme is that the gardeners could not findenough time, and were constantly seekingvolunteers, to help pick and transport theexcess grown to the local food pantry!

An even more successful donation gardenthis year has been Our SavourCommunity Garden, which has donatedover 4,200 pounds.

There is so much to be done if we are tohave any measure of food security here inNorth Texas. For now, we would like tosee more churches and other places

organize groups to till, plant, and harvestfor pantry distribution. These small plotsdont have to be permanent on-goingcommunity gardens, but at least seasonalplantings. More people should plantbackyard gardens, or expand their

gardens (maybe organize a Plant a Row

for the Hungry campaign www.gardenwriters.org/Par/) and begin tomake the giving of locally food grown abigger part of Dallas life. We need moreurban and rural farmers growing for localconsumption, with farmers marketslocated right in needy neighborhoods.

For more on food security, and a muchbroader picture of all the kinds ofprojects that could help end hunger,

please visit the Community FoodSecurity Coalition website (www.

foodsecurity.org).

GICD is so thankful that so manyorganizations and individuals havehelped us play a role in the food securityof our city.

Story by Don Lambert

GARDEN NOTES:Plant SaleOur 2005 plant sale was the best ever. The totalraised was $5,176, which goes towards garden improvements,new projects, and organic gardening education. Please be sureto attend the next plant sale on April 8 & 9, 2006 at the EastDallas Community Garden, and April 22 at Our SaviourCommunity Garden.

Dug InThe Dallas Urban Gardening Initiative, funded byHeifer International, began rolling with the receipt of our firstcheck on February 5. By February 26, new raised beds wereinstalled at Our Saviour, followed by finishing the fence andgarden training area. We have now started the worm farm andour bees are doing well. The front and side flower beds have

attracted much attention. These improvements have broughtrecord harvests, and make it easier to use the garden for training.

Garden PlotsOur Saviour and Hope CommunityGardens currently have space available for several new gardenteam members. There may also be one or two openings in theEast Dallas Community Garden in the next few months.Priority is always given to persons living within one mile, or inthe local neighborhood, and to individuals that help organizeand build. New gardeners must commit to joining the existinggarden teams work on group initiatives, in addition to caring fortheir own garden plot. Interested? Contact GICD.

Garden Field Trips for ChildrenThree GICDcommunity gardens have provided educational and fun-filled

field trips for area daycare and school children. For sevenweeks, starting June 15th, Wilkinson Center Summer YouthProgrambrought 6 to 12 year olds on Wednesdays, in groupsof about 12 each, on field trips to eitherHope or the EastDallas Community Garden. Children learned about differentvegetables and seemed to have the most fun just following theAsian gardeners around as they went about their gardeningchores. Then, in October and November, Our SaviourGarden hosted school children from nearby NathanielHawthorne. Two groups of forty 4th graders and one group offifty 6th graders learned about composting and vermiculture(the earthworms were a huge hit, especially with the boys),made rosemary wreaths, toured the garden, learned about the

different herbs and vegetables, and correct organic gardeningpractices. The older children were given packets of seedsprovided by GICD and Heifer International to grow at home.At the end of their visit they sampled food made from thegardens vegetables (yes, even children will eat snake gourdand eggplant when they can see it growing) and were treated todirt cake with gummy worms, a chocolate cake made withzucchini.

(see Page 7: 4th Graders (quotes from thank you notesfollowing a visit to Our Saviour Community Garden)

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STAFF

Don Lambert, Executive DirectorBunyay Nhonh, Education Assistant

BOARD ASSOCIATES

Ethel Sirls CampbellNavy CheanLee CoblerJennifer ConradMyrna GorchoffJim HobbsMichael JohnsonCharles KempEllen Khurshudian

Tiah LambertLevy LaguardiaKate MacaulayBunyay NhonhA.L. NickersonSophorn Pich

Lance RasbridgePaul Thai

Gerald G. CarltonBob CurryMartha Doleshal

Joanna L. HamptonDon Lambert

Rebecca Smith

2005 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

H. Edward Sholty, PresidentDarlene Smith, Vice President

Carolyn Bush, SecretaryRick Guerrero, Treasurer

GARDENERSIN COMMUNITYDEVELOPMENT

Gardeners inCommunity Development

www.gardendallas.org

901 Greenbriar LaneRichardson, TX 75080

972-231-3565214-675-8473 [email protected]

For information about newsletter contents, orpermission to reprint, contact our acting editor,Don Lambert, at 972-231-3565.

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GICD in the News (a sampling from this past year)Our Saviours Community Garden. December 2004,Esprit(EpiscopalDiocese of Dallas newsletter). With photos of fence building workdayvolunteers for the JPM Chase Bank.

Gardeners Sow Seeds of Change in Urban Neighborhoods: Group sharesbounty with the communitys neediest. Feb 4, 2005, Lakewood People.

Hope Garden holds special harvest. September 22, 2005, The WhiteRocker. Story about Dallas County Master Gardeners and othervolunteers planting and harvesting to benefit Katrina evacuees.

Dallas Community Gardens, by Judy Hominick. Sept/Oct 2005, TexasGardener Magazine. Story with photos about GICD history and work.Photos from several of our gardens, especially the Asian gardens, and theBreadbasket Pantry are included.

Board Members NeededThe GICD Board of Directors meetsabout once a month, and needs more members (annual meeting January19). Board members are very special volunteers that, among other things,

are dedicated to seeing that GICDs mission is carried out, help withpublic relations and fund raising, and volunteer during special events.Interested? Contact GICD.

GICD FundraisingThe need for community gardens has never beengreater. The money given by you, our supporters, your pro bono help, andyour purchases at our annual plant sale are very important to us. Therecent Heifer International funding is a great help, but we are strugglingto find an additional $20,000 just to continue current commitments. Now,more than ever, our gardens are feeding families while building strongercommunities rooted in gardening and sharing. Please consider the powerof a gift to the community invested through Gardeners in CommunityDevelopment.

Wish Listwe need three wheelbarrows (in good condition), a chipper-shredder, heated growing pads for plants, clean 4 pots, a pickup truck (wecant afford repairs), a land survey, and someone with a tractor to till anew garden site.

Special Thanks to VolunteersSome of the volunteer groups that helped make a difference

Service for PeaceNancy Cho, Stacy Cho, Tracy Cho, Nari Choi, NanSuk Park, Marten Hernandez, Nan Young Koo, Sam Koo, Kojo Okamura

Honey Extraction TeamLee & Maggie Cobler, Ashlynn & RebeccaSmith; Amanda, Andrew, Michael & Sophia Brown

UTD Volunteer TeamBrandon Beuerlein, Erica Chavez, MariselaEscanilla, Brandon Javis, Laura Valdez, Gus Vasquea

Hope Garden TeamCarolyn Bush, Bob Curry, Cassandra Delarios,Myrna Gorchoff, Dennis & Donna King, Kate Macaulay, A.L. Nickerson,Seor Ortiz, Brandon & Susan Pollard, Charlotte Stowers

Our Saviour Garden TeamThe Brown Family, Lee & MaggieCobler, Jose & Elizabeth Guevara, Cris Hodge, Sybil Koss, TerryLaguardia, Terry Morgan, A.L. Nickerson, Nona Payne, Ed Sholty, Jackie& Jim Swafford, Darlene Smith, Rebecca Smith, Lee Stubbs

GICD Garden Friends TeamCarolyn Bush, Myrna Gorchoff, Tiah &Aaron Lambert, Ed Sholty, Darlene Smith, Rebecca Smith


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Katrina Sparks IncreasedDonation Gardening

On Saturday September 3, a specialharvest was held at Hope CommunityGarden to benefit area food banksserving Katrina evacuees and others inneed. Members of Hope Garden,Gardeners in Community Developmentand Dallas County Master Gardenersharvested 92 pounds of okra, eggplantMalabar spinach, black eyed peas,tomatoes and other vegetables. The

produce was donated to WilkinsonCenters food pantry.

A Dallas County Master Gardener, JohnWalker, brought his tiller and helpedwork up the back half of the garden sothat we could have increased yields fordonation. From October 13th through thefirst week of November, this specialKatrina inspired planting has providedover 450 pounds of fresh greens for theWilkinson Centers Food Pantry and theMethodists Bread Basket.

Not to be outdone, Our SaviourCommunity Garden has also increased itsdonation planting area.

In keeping with the idea that one gooddeed begets another, two of the MasterGardeners that volunteered in this effortat Hope, came back the next day tovolunteer at St. Lukes Community LifeCenter, across the street from thegarden. St. Lukes has played a majorrole in both Hurricanes Katrina and Ritarelief efforts.

Carolyn Bush

The Episcopal Church of Our Saviour iscelebrating their 50th Anniversary thisyear. We took this celebration to the110th Convention of the EpiscopalDiocese of Dallas at the Adams MarkHotel, Oct. 21-22, with an exhibit on ourpast, present and future.

Our Saviour Community Gardenwhich was established and isgrowing with continued helpfrom GICD, is a ministry of theChurch of Our Saviour to "plotagainst hunger."

With 77 churches from North andNortheast Texas represented, this

was a perfect time and audiencefor GICD!

Our booth featured the history ofour community garden from 2003up to the present, with photos ofthe garden, harvests, gardeners,meetings, volunteer workdays,and student visits. We let peopleknow how we were helped by a donationfrom the Episcopal Church of St.Anne's to install a watering system, by aJP Morgan Chase grant and volunteersduring Global Days to build the fence, by

Heifer International's gifts of livestock(bees and worms) and raised beds, andby GICDs training and support. We areso grateful for all of our blessings!

We handed out an updated GICDdonation pamphlet with a special inserton Our Saviour Garden's projected

donations. Heifer Internationalprovided seed packets that wedistributed to exhibit visitors alongwith pamphlets on "passing on thegift."

With the help of our Sunday Schoolchildren, we baked zucchini (from the

garden, of course) bread to give out.Tiah Lambert and Sybil Koss providedgoodies from the garden for a drawing.We dressed the table with baskets ofzinnias and harvested vegetables and

herbs. The display drew the attention!Then we talked CommunityGardening!

Some members of Our Saviour Church,including Lee Stubbs, Jackie Swaffordand Sophia Brown, manned the exhibitwith GICD board member DarleneSmith. Darlene shared her knowledge

and her harvested rosemary. Fr. EdSholty (current GICD board president)and Deacon Nona Payne, a volunteer,were able to be at the display and talkgardening during meeting intermissions.

On Saturday a team evaluating HeiferInternationals North American urban

agriculture projects, consistingof Bert Lof (ETC Foundationof the Netherlands), Dr.Rigoberto Delgado (SouthwestHeifer Program Manager), andDon Lambert (ExecutiveDirector of GICD), took timefrom their tour of GICDcommunity gardens to make a

special visit to the conventionexhibit hall. The team was ableto meet several of our churchmembers and volunteers, andwas thrilled with the pride,excitement, accomplishments,and powerful message fromOur Saviour Church that

community gardening is a blessing andbeneficial addition to community life.

So far from this exhibit there are twochurches and one church schoolinterested in establishing donationgardens, several individuals interested involunteering or donating excess harvestfrom their home gardens to food pantries,one couple has signed up to a garden plotat OSG, and several schools will bescheduling student visits.

Rebecca Smith, November 6, 2005

Our Saviour Episcopal Church goes to Convention and takes GICD,

Heifer International and Community Gardening with it!

GICD display at the Episcopal Convention (left to right): Rigo Delgado(Heifer), Lee Stubbs (Our Saviour), Don Lambert (GICD), Ed Sholty (GICD),Bert Lof (ETC Foundation), and Jackie Swafford (Our Saviour).


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community gardens, dating from 1943,and engaging over two hundredgardeners on over six acres.

On Friday evening, we were treated to afilm festival of remarkabledocumentaries of different community

gardens. Saturday afternoon was givenover to the annual meeting of the ACGAand then followed up by a dinner andsilent auction held at the CoffmanMemorial Union. Our speaker on thatoccasion was Dr. Laura Lawson of theUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She delivered an illustratedlecture reviewing the history of thecommunity gardening movement in theUnited States. Her book, City Bountiful,a Century of Community Gardening in

America, was seven years in the writing.

Many tours were offered before and afterthe conference, some by bicycle in what

proved to be a very bike-friendly city. A number ofdelegates, including Donand me, spent five hourskayaking on theMississippi, which runsthrough Minneapolis andalongside the UM campus.

The August issue of theACGA's Community

Gardenercontains anumber of conventionphotos taken by Don andTiah.

Up until now, myexperience withcommunity gardening hadbeen largely throughGICD. This convention

opened my eyes to the breadth of theurban agrarian movement and its greatdiversity. It allowed me to meet andconverse with many of the nationallyknown leaders in this fascinating field.The moral, if Don asks you to representGICD next time, seize the opportunity.

Ed Sholty, GICD Board President

First-timer's Impressions:

The ACGA Convention

Once a year, representatives of the 837member American CommunityGardening Association come together toshare ideas, network and provide supportfor each other's local efforts. GICDExecutive Director, Don Lambert, hadtried for three years to get me to attend,but this was the first time I was able todo so. I didn't know what I had beenmissing.

Don and Tiah Lambert, Darlene Smithand I represented GICD at the 26thAnnual Conference of the ACGA, whichmet August 12-14 in Minneapolis, on the

campus of the University of Minnesota.The conference theme, "Gardening in theHeartland: at the Water's Edge" reflectedits location as well as Minneapolis'enthusiastic support of the urbanagrarian movement. There are over 100community gardens in that city alone!The conference included over twohundred community gardeners and theirsupporters.

One's first impression was of climate.Flying out of triple-digit heat, we landedin a cloud-covered Midwest metropoliswith daytime temps in the mid-70s andevenings in the 50's. It proved quite thewelcome respite. Everywhere oneturned, at the airport and on campus,there were large planters overflowingwith bright petunias, this long after theirDallas cousins had faded in the heat.

The conference opened with a sessionfeaturing Minneapolis' Mayor R.T.Rybak, followed by the keynote speaker,Mark Ritchie of the Institute forAgriculture and Trade Policy. Ritchie

compared the creative act of gardening toour social actions that connect us withother forces to shape our communitiesand nation. Democracy is a form of thiscombining of social forces, and ascommunity gardeners we need to paymore attention to our democracy. "Weneed to be clear on how gardening incommunity helps sustain our democracyand how our democracy helps sustain ourcommunities and our gardens."

To learn about the American CommunityGardening Association, visitwww.communitygarden.org.

Please consider becoming a member andsupporting this great non-profit organization.

Our days were filled with workshopsessions offering a rich diversity ofideas and approaches for communitygardening programs. Among thosewere the practical "RainwaterHarvesting for Community Gardens,"the "Raising Community Awareness

for Plant Conservation," "CommunityGarden Fund Raising and Organizing,""Accessible Gardening in a RetirementCommunity" and a Chicago programfor involving teens in sustainable foodsystems and healthy nutrition. As therewere more workshops than any onecould attend, we agreed to go separateways to cover as many of the richofferings as possible. During breaksand between sessions the delegatesstrolled the halls which were filled withexhibit tables loaded with information

from numerous gardens across the USand Canada.

Various tours took delegates offcampus to local community gardensincluding one operated by a group of

Korean-Americans, tucked away in atriangle of land bordered by down townhighways, streets and light rail. Groupsalso visited the famous DowlingGarden, one of America's oldest

ACGA Conference attendees toured the 62 year old Dowling CommunityGarden in Minneapolis, and participated in their annual Tomato TastingFestival featuring dozens of heirloom tomato varieties grown in the garden.


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GICD SUPPORTERSFALL 2004-FALL 2005

Communities Foundation of Texas

Heifer International

JP Morgan Chase Bank

Walmart

Les Dames Descoffier

Munger Place Historic District

Peter ODonnell, Jr.

Dr. Larry A. Cooper & Ann McGee-Cooper

Jim & Linda Jordan Hobbs

Linda Ahrens

Steven & Linda Ali

Gordon & Louise Appleman

Lorlee C. Bartos

Barbara Baughman

Rose Blatch

Carolyn Bush

Mr. & Mrs. CaffreyMathew & Linda Craig

Beverly K. Cunningham

Mark DeHaven

Ted Dornseifer

Nancy Edwards & Bob Randall

Cindy & Scott Freedman

Green Living

Malaysian Family Club

Pepsico

Gary Groh

Mary Margaret Halleck

Jacquelyn KeitherRobin Kosberg

Kurt Kretsinger

Daniel Kunsch

Steal Lawson

Veletta Lill

Jannette Lockridge

Gay & Charles Lustfield

Carol S. & Jack Lyons

Bill Matthews

Patricia Parrish

Lupe Perez

Shirley Pollock

Albi & Peter AssmanSubapote Atiyawijitr

H.W. & Shelley Baerwaldt

Eric & Catherine Barr

Roger & Lorraine Carroll

Jane Cockrell

Boyce & Patricia Farrar

Roger & Patty Frederick

Sharan & Lynn Goldstein

Myrna Gorchoff

Jim & Marianne Howells

Mark & Ann Joseph

John & Joanna Hampton

Larry M. Harrington

H. William Jessie, Jr.

Tom & Pungut Korytowski

Murray & Michelina Leaf

Vicki & Mike Millican

Janet Newberger

Adrian PetersonJoanne & James Pratt

Louise B. Raggio

Lance Rasbridge & Diane Sumoski

Judson Mark Sinclair

Mr. & Mrs. Darwin Smith

Mrs. Lisa O. Smith

Rosni Uzairi & Miles Dunn

Amanda Vanhoozier

Ann Whittus

Jeffrey & Elizabeth Zucker

Jan PruittJohn Pullman

Beverly Samuels

Thompson & Taryn Sawyer

Kenneth Soo

Michael & Kasmah Sumner

Texas Blooms Organic Landscape Co.

Sammye Toulmin

Marcy Veatch

Roger & Sue Yaekel

Carol Weinstein

Sally Wylde

Noel & Jeannie Barrick

Gerald G. CarltonDarlene Smith & Jay Dowling

Blue Mesa Grill

Dallas Organic Garden Club

Safeway/Tom Thumb Award Card


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Become a Community Gardening Supporter

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Principal Supporter $1000 or more ____ Program Supporter $1500 or more ____

Organizations $ 35 ____ Garden Supporter $ 500 ____

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Other Amount $ ______________

Make checks payable to: GICD

Gardeners in Community Development is a 501(C)(3) organization

Please mail your contribution to:GICD, 901 Greenbriar Lane, Richardson, TX 75080

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Tiahs Garden Recipe:

Holiday Spiced Honeyed Pickled Peppers (Refrigerator Style)

4 cups sliced peppers use mixture of hot and sweet such asjalapeo, Hungarian wax, pimento, and sweet banana

2 cups vinegar1 cup honey1 tsp salt1/2 tsp tumeric powder2 inch stick of cinnamon, broken in halves8 cloves

Step 1: Pack the sliced peppers tightly into 2 one pint jars.Step 2: In a stainless steel pot boil the vinegar, add the honey and all the other ingredients.

Stir well and bring to a full boil.Step 3: Pour solution in the jars to cover the peppers. Distribute cinnamon and cloves

between jars. Cover jars immediately. Allow to cool before refrigerating.

Note: these pickles must be kept in the refrigerator, and should keep well there for up tothree months. They are ready to eat after 3 days. Enjoy with holiday meals!

4th Graders (verbatim from thank you notes following a visit to Our Saviour Community Garden)

Thank you for letting us touch the worms and we enjoy the garden.

We wighed punkins, okra, peppers, and squash. We saw rosemary, thyme, and basil. Thank you very muck.

Thank you for showing us you flower, pumpkins, okra and thank you for leting us get the peppers. I will

allways remember that day.Thank you. I wish I went agin.


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Thank you!

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